question about zones and the db.
 

First I want to start out by saying, Bravo! Excelent job by the dev team, and all those who help in the support forums.

My questions:
1) I am working on a server but Have no intentions of offering all the EQ zones, so if I were to remove the zones that I will not support from my DB would this cause any problems?

1a) Related to 1, by changing the zone lines on the zones I do plan on supporting, is it possable to have the zone locations zone a character to a different zone other then the original EQ locations?

2) I now there is no 'formal' support for the dev release of v5.7, but could I ask if the 5-1-04 verision fixes the character creation problem? and if it did then I know I have other issues.
The problem I am having is this.. I create a character the server reports everything went ok, but world crashes. then apon relogin world delete the character... Any thoughts?

Thanks for any and all help
Drag

Shouldn't hurt anything as long as there's now way that a person can get to those zones (like shutting off #zone and disabling any expansions that use the zone).

Depends on what you mean by "changing the zone lines." If you're just talking about making it so that say. . . The Nexus/Netherbian Lair zone line takes you to Greater Faydark instead then yep! If you're talking about changing the zone geometry (like adding/removing hills and such) then the answer is still "yes," you just have to do a little extra work. And everyone will have to download the "new" copy of your zone before they can go there.

Yeah, the code is available here. You'll have to manually insert it into the curent code and then compile it yourself though.

Mikenune,

thanks for the info, I will try that pice of code and recompile when I arrive home this evening.

This is exactly what I am talking about..

Drag